vrijdag 6 januari 2012

Batavia

During my Christmas holidays I read Mike Dash's 'Batavia's Graveyard' about the mutiny on the dutch merchant ship Batavia in 1629. It is a story about a shipwreck, a mutiny and brutal murder. The book not only tells about this mutiny as such, but gives a colourful insight in the 17th century dutch life... And today I learned that the replica of the Batavia, in Lelystad, has been damaged by a storm yesterday. The main mast is broken.